Penicillin g benzathine 1,200,000 unit/2 ml intramuscular syringe at UPMC Hamot

201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$274.80

Cash price

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Discounted cash price

What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge.

Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.

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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.

$458.00

Gross charge

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Gross charge (chargemaster price)

The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this.

Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.

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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.

$3.00 with Univera vs $46.37 with Highmark BCBS of PA — same scan, same building. Share

Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate

The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.

Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.

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Payer
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Payer

The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on.

Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509.

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Plan
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Plan

The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates.

Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $3.00 ↓ -99%
Aetna Commercial $5.00 ↓ -98%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $5.66 ↓ -98%
Cigna New Business ASO $6.00 ↓ -98%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $6.00 ↓ -98%
Univera Commercial $6.60 ↓ -98%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $7.00 ↓ -97%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $7.36 ↓ -97%
Cigna EBR $8.00 ↓ -97%
Cigna Commercial $8.00 ↓ -97%
United Healthcare Commercial $9.09 ↓ -97%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $9.78 ↓ -96%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $13.00 ↓ -95%
Aetna AXA/MMO $14.00 ↓ -95%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $14.00 ↓ -95%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $16.00 ↓ -94%
InterGroup Beech Street $16.00 ↓ -94%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $16.46 ↓ -94%
Independent Health Commercial $16.46 ↓ -94%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $18.95 ↓ -93%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $28.98 ↓ -89%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $30.01 ↓ -89%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $30.01 ↓ -89%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $30.01 ↓ -89%
Fidelis Medicare $30.01 ↓ -89%
Aetna Medicare $30.61 ↓ -89%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $30.63 ↓ -89%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $30.91 ↓ -89%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $31.51 ↓ -89%
United Healthcare Medicare $32.11 ↓ -88%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $32.41 ↓ -88%
Cigna Medicare $32.41 ↓ -88%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $32.41 ↓ -88%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $32.41 ↓ -88%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $46.37 ↓ -83%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Penicillin g benzathine 1,200,000 unit/2 ml intramuscular syringe at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $373.80 $9.29 – $32.11
UPMC Bedford Everett $156.60 $7.55 – $31.51
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $96.00 $18.91 – $182.55
UPMC Cole Coudersport $948.00 $24.67 – $71.20
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $96.00 $16.28 – $182.55
UPMC East Monroeville $526.20 $8.73 – $58.40
UPMC Northwest Seneca $96.00 $18.95 – $32.41
UPMC Hanover Hanover $96.00 $29.71 – $182.55

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